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58 to construct, in imagination, its whole course. He is enabled to do so by an act of Faith—faith in the Great Unity Who governs Nature; faith which is the evidence of things not seen. This act of Faith is so elementary and spontaneous, that only a few deep thinkers have recognized it for what it is. But slight as it is, all the delights and powers conferred by the Higher Mathematics are the reward of that simple trust! See how The Unity keeps His ancient covenant with man! Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it yet entered into the heart of man to conceive, what He hath in store for those that love Him!

And slight as is the act of faith needed to understand transcendental mathematics, many are unable to perform it. There are so-called mathematicians who confess themselves unable to see the validity of the reasoning on which the Higher Mathematics rests; they only see that it must be somehow right because predicted eclipses and comets appear in due season; and they therefore assume the legitimacy of the stand-point whence predictions are made; but their own mental action goes no deeper than working out the syllogistic consequences of a knowledge which they do not properly possess. They believe because they have seen prediction fulfilled. Blessed are they who believe in The Unity before they see. No possession of any fact which we know only through the intellect or the senses can equal the intimate and rapturous sense of Union with the Great Unity which is given to him who is enabled by faith to trace in imagination the exact course of a planet out of sight.

Now if persons incapable of understanding transcendental mathematics should presume to claim from true